Vulcan
kən noun
1.
the ancient Roman god of fire and metalworking, identified with the Greek Hephaestus.
2.
Military. a six-barrel, 20mm U.S. Army antiaircraft gun system mounted on an armored personnel carrier and first deployed in 1968.
3.
Astronomy. a hypothetical planet nearest the sun whose existence was erroneously postulated to account for perturbations in Mercury's orbit.
Origin:
1505–15; < Latin Vulcānus
1505–15; < Latin Vulcānus
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Vulcan1 (ˈvʌlkən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| Greek counterpart: Hephaestus the Roman god of fire and metalworking | |
| Vulcanian1 | |
| —adj | |
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Vulcan
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So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| Vulcan2 (ˈvʌlkən) | |
| —n | |
| a hypothetical planet once thought to lie within the orbit of Mercury | |
| Vulcanian2 | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
Vulcan
god of fire and metal-work in Roman mythology, 1513, from L. Vulcanus, a word of Etruscan origin. Often with allusions to his lameness and the unfaithfulness of his wife, Venus. As the name of a hypothetical planet between Mercury and the Sun, it is attested from 1870. The Roman feast of Vulcanalia was
on Aug. 23.
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Cultural Dictionary
Vulcan The Roman and Greek god of fire and metalworking; the blacksmith of the gods. He suffered bodily deformities and lameness. According to some stories, he was married to Venus, the goddess of love and beauty; in other stories, he was married to one of the three Graces. Vulcan was a son of Jupiter.
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Computing Dictionary
VULCAN definition
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["VULCAN - A String Handling Language with Dynamic Storage Control", E.P. Storm et al, Proc FJCC 37, AFIPS, Fall 1970].
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["Vulcan: Logical Concurrent Objects", K. Kahn et al in Research Directions in Object- Oriented Programming, A.B. Shriver et al eds, MIT Press 1987].
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